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From DieHards to Delcos, most car batteries are pretty much created equal: they eventually lose their juice. Two Texas A&M University physicists are looking into ways to keep batteries going and going and going, and finding answers that embrace both biology and chemistry. Their project also hints at something that has puzzled biologists for more than 100 years: creation of electrical fields around plant roots while they grow...

The Optical Society of America has presented Marlan O. Scully of Texas A&M University the 1998 Charles Hard Townes Award for his role in laying the theoretical foundation for laser science, free electron lasers and lasers without inversion...

Texas A&M University physicist and Texas Engineering Experiment Station researcher Dr. Marlan O. Scully has won the 1998 Charles H. Townes Award from the most prestigious society in the optics and photonics field for his work in quantum electronics...

From 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday (April 25) the Department of Physics is having its annual open house for the purpose of recruiting graduate students. Students from other parts of The Texas A&M University System...

A Texas-based theoretical physicist has been ranked ninth in the current publication of the Institute of Scientific Information's (ISI) list of most-cited physicists and third in his field of theoretical physics...

The Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose theories about symmetry in nature set the stage for today's understanding of how elementary particles behave will present two lectures Friday (Sept. 27) at Texas A&M University...

Theoretical physicist Michael Duff is trying to change the shape of the universe or at least the shape of the stuff it is made of. If theories proposed over the past year by Duff and his colleagues in Texas A&M University's Center for Theoretical Physics hold up, particles that are the building blocks of the universe may change from infinitely tiny points to bubbles and sheets and tubes...

Superconductors, those high-tech materials that were supposed to revolutionize everything from computers to the late superconducting super collider, don't seem to have lived up to their advance billing, scientists say. @That didn't seem to bother a group of physicists -- including a Nobel laureate -- who gathered March 11 at Texas A&M University for a daylong symposium honoring physicist Charles Squire, a distinguished former member of Texas A&M's physics faculty...